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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEe GILBERT S. PRIOR, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE G. BATCHELDER, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,192, dated December- 11, 1883.

Application filed October 18, 1883.

To @ZZ whom may concern.-

Be it known that I, GILBERT S. PRIOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massaehusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers; andI do hereby declare that the same are fully described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

This invention lrelates toimprovements in bottle-Stoppers particularly adapted for bar and table use, to prevent iiies or winged insects from getting into bottles, as well as to prevent particles of cork, Ste., or dead flies, from passing out of the neck of the bottle whenl serving the liquor, as will hereinafter be more fully shown and described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where-- Figure l represents a plan view of the invention, and Fig. 2 represents aside elevation of it. Eig. 3 represents a central longitudinal section of the improved bottle-stopper as'applied to the neck of a bottle.

Similar letters refer to similar partsrwherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

The invention consists of the hollow metal tube a, provided about midway with a ange, a', below which is arranged, on the tube a, the annular cork or rubber ring b, as usual in bottle-stoppers. 'The upper end of th'tube a (No model.)

terminates as 'a collar, a, with a turned-over lip, a3, between which and the collar a is an annular groove or recess, a4, into which the outer edge of the perforated wire gauze or netting c is secured and held;

The annular groove a* may be made by spinning or turning over the lip a3 after the perforated wire or gauze netting c is placed on top of flange or collar a, or the said perforated wire or gauze netting c may be placed in the mold, and the metal cast around its lower outer edge, if so desired. 4

The perforated netting c may be made convex, as shown in the drawings, flat, or concave, or of other shape, .without departing from the essence of my invention.

What I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim, is-

The herein-described bottle-stopper, consisting of the hollow tube a and flange a', combinedwith the collar a, lip a3, and annular groove a* in its upper end, said groove having therein the perforated gauze or wire netting c, al1 combined and arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth. Y

In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig- 

